Adrian J. Mccarr, 78

Was State Police Captain

January 19, 1992|The Morning Call

Adrian J. McCarr, 78, retired Pennsylvania State Police captain, died Saturday in Lehigh Valley Hospital Center. He and his wife, the former Frances M. (Rhines) McCarr, resided in Stafore Estates, Hanover Township. They were married 50 years last August.

McCarr was with the state police for almost 30 years after graduating from the Hershey Training School of the Pennsylvania Motor Police. He was the recipient of many awards, among them the Commissioner's Citation for his work in solving the 1943 White Slave Ring cases in Northampton County; a citation from T. McKeen Chidsey, former Attorney General, on the magistrate's investigation in Philadelphia; a commendation from former Governor George Leader on flood control duty in Bucks County; a citation from former Attorney General Tom McBride on investigation of a Ku Klux Klan racial disturbance in Bucks County, and two troop citations for the investigation of riots at the State Correctional Institution in Philadelphia.

He served at Bethlehem, became sergeant and substation commander at Langhorne and Fairless Hills, Bucks County; Det. Sgt. at Bethlehem covering Bucks, Lehigh and Northampton counties; lieutenant in Philadelphia, and retired as captain of Troop L, Reading, in 1967. While stationed in Bucks County, he conducted classes for the Fraternal Order of Police and the Chiefs of Police School.

He joined Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Allentown, in 1967 as supervisor of property protection, retiring in 1977.

Born in Savage, Minn., he was a son of the late Ned and Amelia (Wiesner) McCarr.